- Original: הבל הבל - Transliteration: hebel - Phonetic: heh'bel - Definition: 1. vapour, breath a. breath, vapour b. vanity (fig.) adv 2. vainly - Origin: from H1891 - TWOT entry: 463a - Part(s) of speech: Noun Masculine - Strong's: From H1891 ; emptiness or vanity; figuratively something transitory and unsatisfactory; often used as an adverb: - X altogether vain vanity. Total KJV Occurrences: 73 • altogether, 1 Job 27:12 • vain, 11 Job 9:29; Job 21:34; Job 35:16; Psalm 39:6; Proverbs 31:30; Ecclesiastes 6:12; Isaiah 30:7; Isaiah 49:4; Jeremiah 10:3; Lamentations 4:17; Zechariah 10:2 • vanities, 12 Deuteronomy 32:21; 1 Kings 16:13; 1 Kings 16:26; Psalm 31:6; Ecclesiastes 1:2(2); Ecclesiastes 5:7; Ecclesiastes 12:8; Jeremiah 8:19; Jeremiah 10:8; Jeremiah 14:22; Jonah 2:8 • vanity, 49 2 Kings 17:15; Job 7:16; Psalm 39:5; Psalm 39:11; Psalm 62:9(2); Psalm 78:33; Psalm 94:11; Psalm 144:4; Proverbs 13:11; Proverbs 21:6; Ecclesiastes 1:2(3); Ecclesiastes 1:14; Ecclesiastes 2:1; Ecclesiastes 2:11; Ecclesiastes 2:15; Ecclesiastes 2:17; Ecclesiastes 2:19; Ecclesiastes 2:21; Ecclesiastes 2:23; Ecclesiastes 2:26; Ecclesiastes 3:19; Ecclesiastes 4:4; Ecclesiastes 4:7; Ecclesiastes 4:8; Ecclesiastes 4:16; Ecclesiastes 5:10; Ecclesiastes 6:2; Ecclesiastes 6:4; Ecclesiastes 6:9; Ecclesiastes 6:11; Ecclesiastes 7:6; Ecclesiastes 7:15; Ecclesiastes 8:10; Ecclesiastes 8:14(2); Ecclesiastes 9:9(2); Ecclesiastes 11:8; Ecclesiastes 11:10; Ecclesiastes 12:8(2); Isaiah 57:13; Jeremiah 2:5; Jeremiah 10:15; Jeremiah 16:19; Jeremiah 51:18